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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
THE BRUSH TURKEY
The Unique Process of Matching Adopte
by This Intelligent Bird.

The Unique Process of Matching Adopte d
by This Intelligent Bird.
':All birds hatch their eggs" ZooI-
ogy knows very few exceptions to this
rule, and although old works on nat
ural history states that the sun relieves
the ostrich of this duty, it is now
known that she attends to the work
most conscientiously. Only the cuckoo
succeeds in Sinking this business en-
tirely, leaving her little ones to the
mercy of kind hearted little singers.
Besides this bird, we may mention the
brush turkey as one which does not
hatch its eggs, but it is more conscien-
tious about the matter than the cuckoo
The brush turkey (TalegalIus lathanai)
is powerful bird. attaining a size of
about thirty -one inches. and can be
recognized by its powerful build,
rather long neck, large head,
sharp bent beak, strong feet,
and short rounded wings. The scar
let Of the featherless neck
and the yellow pouch de-
pendent therefrom stand out
in decided contrast to the brown
plumage. The home of the brush tur-
key is in the thick forests of Australia.
At mating time Tin the spring. the
male develops surprising amount of
activity and industry. He picks out a
sheltered spot for nest and then goes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

to work to build a mount. With his
strong feet he throws a quantity Of
leaves. fbers of wood. small twigs dry
grass, etc, into heap behind him. and
this forms the center Of a large circle,
the periphery of which soon appears
perfectly clean; and o mound about
yard and half high is built While
other birds go at once to their newly
prepared homes and begin to lay their
eggs, the brush turkey pursues an en-
tirely different course. The wise Great
ure waits several weeks until the fer
mentation and decomposition of the
vegetable matter in the heap has
generated heat of about 1O4 deg.
F., the temperature required for either
natural or artificial Matching Of eggs
1t is wonderful to see with what GER
tainty the birds determine upon the
proper time. The male often mounts
the nest to examine it, scrape off lit
tie here and q little there, and then
covers the places over again carefully.
When he finds that the temperature
of the mass is what it should be, he
digs numerous holes about the axis of
the mound, and in each one of these
holes the female drops an egg with the
blunt end up. After the male has
closed these holes both birds go away.
the male only returning from time to
time to regulate the heat covering the
eggs more or less, according to the
moisture and temperature of the at
mosphere. After about three weeks
the young are Matched. They are en-
tirely covered with feathers, their
wings are we'll developed, and they
seem as strong as our domestic chick
ems. The whole process reminds one
of the development of the butterfly,
which is able to fly soon after leaving
the chrysalis. After about twelve
hours the young brush turkeys appear
merry and active. wandering about
with their parents, but in the after
noon they are buried in the nest again
by their careful father. On the third
day they are able to fly, and after that
are perfectly independent Their pro-
cess of Matching has been repeatedly
carried out by brush turkeys in cap
tivity, as. for instance, in the Berlin
Geological Garden, when they formed
the center of attraction for friends
and students of zoology. -Deutsche
Nlustrirte Zeitung.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
THE TRAINING OF LIONS.

They May Be Beaten Into Stupidity, But
Can Not Be Kicked Into Cleverness.
NJ. Pezon, who has just retired from
business, was, with one exception, the
greatest lion-tamer in the world. The
exception is M. Bidell, who still con-
tinues to exercise his marvellous con-
troll over the monarch of the woods.
The most interesting fact in M. Pezon' 8
career is that he never used whip.
His method was, in the political slang
of the day. Cancellation, and not coer-
cion. He adopted persuasive methods.
and his success with lions was extra
ordinary. Tigers. he candidly con-
fessed. he could not manage so well.
Kindness. it seems, does not appeal to
the tiger, whether of the human or the
feline species, and cruelty NJ Pezon
would not use. II he had he
would probably have failed.
The experience OF all persons
who have taken part in the training
of animals is in this respect pretty
much the same They may be beaten
into stupidity. but they can not be
kicked into cleverness. Thus the
sight of tricks well performed by any
sort of beast. from the dancing dog to
which DR.. johnson ungallantly COM
pared oratorical women to Mr.. Crock
er's hideously-named "Equirationals. !"
may be enjoyed without scruple by
the most humane and scrupulous
spectator. They can not have in-
yolyed any real suffering on the part
of the performers, and they have prob
ABLY given them good deal Of pleas
ure in the process of acquisition. Opin-
ions will, of course, differ as the value
of lions when they have been tanned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

whale and calf were followed In shs'fe'
the latter, wounded by the whalers, was
fioundering about and sinking uitl,
mately to be drowned, when the devoted
mother rushed to the rescue. and placing
herself under the enormous baby nite0
it up near the surface SO that it rested
upon her back, and actually endeav-
ored to carry it off in this position.
falling victim to the bomb OF the
whalers while attempting the rescue.
The sea otter, that is found In the
Same waters. Is also noted for the are
of its young. the little ones being carried
about in every conceivable position.
They are often found in the great keip
beds that lie between the breakers and
the shore in some parts OF the Paclnc
coast The gigantic weed breaks the
force of the waves, and forms partial
resting-place. Here the offers ale
often seen lying upon their backs or
swimming about, bearing their little
ones, and sometimes tossing them into
the air Just as human mothers toss
their babies to hear their shouts OF
merriment.
The dugong, with its grotesque, al
most human face, supports its young
upon its flippers, and this occurrence
is probably the origin of many OF the
tales of mermaids which so many OF
the ancient works contain. The old
voyagers, seeing the curious figure
half out of the water, holding the
young in so human position. readily
believed it to be the mermaid OF which
they had heard
There is hardly branch of the ami
NAL kingdom in which we can not find
some creature whose little ones ride
pick-a-pack. The young scorpions as
soon as born crawl upon their mother,
covering her with bristling array OF
claws and tails. so that she is often
completely hidden, and. terrible to
relate, they soon devour her for her
pains.
Many spiders ride about upon their
parents back, and when they are dis
posed to stray away first fasten
thread of silk to her, as sort of apron
string by which they can travel back.
The mother spiders are particularly
careful OF their young. and when
bearing the egg-sac about are very
courageous. I have taken hold of an
egg bag. held by mother, and had
her dart at my hand, pull and strug-
gle, and only release her hold when
she was actually forced away. To
protect their nests some species adopt
the most remarkable expedients. Some
make burrows in the ground which are
closed by spring doors covered by
growing plants placed there, it is al
legged. by the spiders themselves. Once
in these silk-lined dens. the enemy
might expect to find the young spider
family, but branching off from the
main tunnel, another will be found,
also having door. which closes so
perfectly that only the sharpest-eyed
enemy can perceive it. and here, per-
haps, the young spiders lie concealed,
feeding on the results of their parents
foraging.
Other spiders envelop their youngin
a silken balloon, and suspend it by
single thread, and thus footing in
the air it is safe from attack. Vide
AaO0Ee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
FOR DUB YOUNG READERS.
TWO SIDES TO A QUESTION

.'Oh, mammal cried the little boy,
ST saw q horrid toad?
And had mind to kill 1t
As it hoped along the road.
.sIt had q lot OF ugly warts
All up and down its back,
And two such little specks Of eyes,
Nhat looked so bright and black.
"Such horrid ugly things as that
I'm sure ought not to live"
But mamma said: 'sYou should not take
The life you can not give.
Sand toads, although they may not be
$50 pleasant to the view,
Are harmless little creatures,
And very useful, too.
'sThey catch the bugs and insects
That in our garden Turk,
And earn our kind protection
In payment for their work"
ooh, mamma. cried q youthful toad,
i've had a dreadful scare!
I saw great big horrid thing
Beside the tree out there.
sit had such dreadful great long legs.
And such big round head.
With two great eyes, that stared at me
Until turned and fed.
81 hoped 80 fast tumbled down,
And almost lost my breath.
Dear mamma, tell me what it was
That scared me half to deathf'
my DEAR the toad-mamma exclaimed,
And Rugged her child with joy,
'That horrid thing that frightened you
Was nothing but a boy.
ale has mamma, too, perhaps,
Who loves him quite as well
AS I love you; and that I'm sure,
Is more than can tell"
"But he was such an UGLY thing"
The little toad replied.
TIN sure don't see how his ma
Could love him II she tried"
Golden Days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
SEEING THE SUN RISE.
The First and Last Sunrise Which Lac,
Bonnibel Saw.

The First and Last Sunrise Which Lazy
Bonnibel Saw.
Bonnibel remembers one morning
on waking that she has in the course
of her life seen certainly not more
than half-a-dozen sunrises, and she
doesn't really think it is so many.
And those were all of them accidental
either because she was sick and
couldn't sleep, or had to get up at four
or five, or some such dreadful hour, to
catch train. Now to appreciate q
sunrise, the body should be free from
discomfort and the mind from care.
Speaking in an artistic sense. Bonni-
bel reflects, as the ceiling of her room
gradually fiushes to a delicate pink,
she has never seen sunrise at all.
She resolves that she soiW see one-at
Observation-Disclosures!
A moment later she is up and dress
ing; in ten minutes she is out in the
garden. her curly hair tucked
up hastily in her neck, and
her fingers fastening final
button as she goes. How cool, how
delicious, is the autumn air. The
flowers are just opening; few buds
even shyly unclose while she is looking
at IN. The many colored morning
gl~ries IRE holding up their perfect
cups to the light; little dewdrops
sparkle among the gorgeous flames of
the nasturtiums; spider-webs, dotted
with tiny diamonds, twinkle daintily
upon the lawn.
All, here comes an old friend-one
she has known about ever since she
was little girl, though she hasn't met
him very often. He approaches with
a short run, stop, another run, two
OF three hops. halt, head up and red
breast thrown forward, like an alert
little sentinel, and then a sudden dab
at the moist ground with his yellow
bill. The Early Bird. of course. She
watches, silent and amused, while he
jerks his sturdy little neck. jumps for
ward and sideways and backward by
turns. and flaps his brown wings in
great excitement, as he strug-
giles to pull from its retreat the long,
reluctant body of the Worm, which
desperately. objects to being caught.
Caught he b. however. and presently
up flies the robin, with his victim trail
ing from his bsak, and vanishes among
the leaves of an apple tree, whence
presently a few clear, CHEEKY notes Of
triumph rise upon the air.
Bonnibel looks up into the tree. and
sees that the pink sky is changing to
orange. the orange to yellow, and
then, with flash that dazzles her eyes.
and sets all the other birds in all the
other trees to singing, up comes the
great, round. golden sun!
so beautiful, so very beautiful"
she thinks as she turns toward the
house with mingled visions of poetic
glory and hot rolls running in her
brain, Il wonder people can lie abed
when they know that such q miracle
is going onl''
But, somehow, that sunrise remains
the last that she has seen, and though
the Early Bird goes on catching the
Early Worm every morning under her
window. he has no influence whatever
in keeping her from being late 10
breakfast. Youths Communion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
ROTATION OF CROPS.

Results of Experiment Made at the Mis-
souri, Agricultural College.
Prof. j. w. Sanborn. of Missouri
Agricultural College, in a recently
issued bulletin CNo. 29), gives the fol-
lowing experiments to prove the value
of rotation of crops: Five plats of one
tenth acre, or sixteen square rods each,
were thus treated:
Plat 1. Wheat after wheat successive
ly-unmanured.
Plat 2. Wheat after wheat; MANFRED,
six tons per acre yearly.
Plat 8. Wheat, clover, corn, potatoes
in rotation; six tons manure per acre
yearly.
Plat 4. Wheat, corn, wheat. corn, in
rotation.
Plat 5. Same as Plat 3, but unma-
nured.
The rotation given is not recon-
mended as a typical or especially prac-
teal one, but merely to illustrate the
value of rotations. Plats all sown to
wheat in 1883. and again in 1887, or in
first year of each four-year rotation:
Bushels of Wheat Per Acre:
1sss 1891 1881 Els ssss IS s sss
Notwithstanding the apparent even
ness of the ground the first crop was
uneven, but this disappeared before
the conclusion of the trial. The four
years. rotation plat CNo. 81, gives 81
per cent more wheat than the plat
(No. p, where wheat follows wheat,
Notwithstanding this is one of the best
wheat years known in the history of
Missouri. The two years rotation
CNo. ~, increased the crop over the
non-rotation yield IS per cent This
shows that a short rotation in accord
ance with the general laws, is not as
eficacious as a longer one, yet is a
great gain. Four years rotation is
shown to be more efficacious than on
MANFRED non-rotation crop; contrast
plat with plat for 1877. 1t can not
be said that manure is of no use, as an
explanation of the result, since the I'M
MANFRED non-rotation plat is but
about one-half the yield that the
MANFRED non-rotation gives. or as
13 81 bushels is to "a. 20 bushels. Four
years unmanured rotation is about as
good as two years MANFRED rotation.
These results can not be said to be
due to plat variation, as the poorest
yield the first year was gained on the
rotation plats. Furthermore. all the
plats tell one story, and the five years
aggregate is in one direction. Again,
these plats are joined by many other
plats in wheat after wheat, both ma
nured and unmanured, and none of
them came up to the rotation plat.
Again, the whole farm is farmed on a
six years rotation scheme better or
ganized than these plats were. 1t is
corn following timothy, then oats,
clover. wheat, timothy fifth year and
timothy sixth year. The crops on the
farm, as noted are superior to the
plats, and it's tillage area is now very
productive. While rotation is only
one of the important factors in our
farming. yet 1 am entirely confident
that the adoption of systematic rota-
ton of crops by our farmers will do
much to add to their comfort and
wealth-indeed revolutionize our con-
ditions. Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

The Bronson library of Water
bury, Conn, has received fifty dollar
bank note on the once noted Eagle
bank of New Haven. 1t has no in
trinsic value, but would bring much
more than it represents from collectors.
The celebrated failure of the Eagle
bank is still remembered by the older
residents of New Haven.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

'.How are you getting
on with your patent fire escape,
Smith," Smith, won't be able to
push it much until my leg gets better.
But it's a big thing" Brown
whats the matter with your legf
SMITH broke it while testing the
fire escape. IN r Sam
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

Man has been called bundle of
habits. He is like a cable, which may
be made up of thousand threads, but
it is shaped and welded and moulded
into one. So it is with all of us, as
regards our character, which is our
life, and which is made up of our hab-
it's Sow habit and you reap q
character. n-Prairie Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

What funny animal man is A
man is proud as a king to be grand
father. but it makes him as mad as
hornet to be called an 'told gran
dad"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

The E7O. 600 given to Queen Vic
toria on her jubilee will be devoted TO
the training Of nurses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
Pearl Fishers of the Red Sea
EXCHANGE.

Some 800 boats of from eight to TWEEN
ty tons burden, and with crews of, in the
aggregate, about $500 men, mostly negro
slaves, are engaged in the pearl fisheries
of the Red Sea, which yield from $780,
600 to $150,000 year. One third of the
income the owners Of the vessels retain
the remaining two thirds are distributed
among the crews, which makes an average
of $50 TO $40 year to every man. In
former days Djeddah, near Mecca, in
Arabia, was the port where all the pearls
were taken and sold. But since the gov
eminent imposed an import duty of per
cent. upon the pearls the fishers com
menced carrying their shells to Masso-
wah and Suakin, on the African coast,
where they have only per cent. of duty
to pay. At present the latter ports re-
ceive about three-quarters of the entire
yield, hardly one-quarter of it still going
to Djeddah. From these ports the pearls
are transported to Cairo and Alexandria,
in lower Egypt, whence most of them go
to Mrieste, upon the Adrsatic Sea, few
only reaching London and Havre directly
from Egypt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

are times when the farmer prefers to
wait until all of the weeds have sprouted
and the field is we'll covered before using
the cultivator, thus saving labor; but un-
der no conditions should they go to seed.
If the weeds get too high the cultivator
is useless, and the pillow must be brought
into requisition, which entails slower
and harder work. After the spring weeds
have all been turned under then will come
the persistent summer crab-grass and
pnrslane, which require but few days
after a rain to become we'll rooted.
There is no grass more.easily destroyed
when it is young than crab-grass, but if
1t Is permitted to make Roadway it will
often require the hoe to get rid of il.
Whenever seed sprouts, and the plant
from 1T is turned under, it is forever de-
stroyed as all plants come from seeds or
roots; they must sprout or grow and if
this growth be prevented they perish.
The cultivation against weeds must be
thorough. A single plant if allowed to
escape and bear seed, may cause all the
labor to be done over again the next sea-
son. The work of keeping down the
weeds may be costly for year or two,
but If the work be we'll done, IN few
seasons the farmer will enjoy a respite,
though persistent watchf illness will be
necessary to prevent them from again Sc
curing foothold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
The determination of Weeds.
Philadelphia Record.

Warm weather and abundant rains al
ways cause the weeds and grass to grow
very rapidly. On the farm it requires a
larger share of labor to keep down the
weeds and undesirable grass than to pre-
pave the ground and harvest the regular
crops. The value of the labor bestowed
on weeds (if it could be properly esti-
mated) amounts to many millions of dol
lars, and any portion Of this labor that
can be avoided will be saving and will
add to the profits. Yet the weeds can be
entirely eradicated by determined effort.
There are hundreds of varieties of weeds,
and we may class the grasses as weeds
when they voluntarily spring up where
not desired. Some weeds come very ear
ly in the season, while others wait until
the warm days of summer. The seeds
seem to remain dormant in the soil for
years, for no amount of hard work and
cultivation viii apparently rid the ground
of the pests. But the weeds can be all
cleaned out in few seasons, though in
order to do so the work must be done in
systematic manner. The first resolve
should be never to allow the weeds 10 do
more than sprout, and the next should be
never to allow them to go to seed. There
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

-
London-the tutors suggested that he
should be rusticated.
"Three days late, is he?" answered the
venerable president in his childish treble.
swell, sirs, there has been very heavy
fall of snow, and as the gentleman re-
sides in Norfolk, no doubt the coaches
have been detained on the road.''
"But," urged the tutors, she could have
reached Oxford in few hours by rail
way"
sRailway!" exclaimed the president,
incrednlously. "Ah well, don't know any
thing about that"
The old man, though he daily heard
the whistle of the locomotives running
on the Great Western railway, ignored the
existence of the road.
He was tory of the class from whom
the genius Of Disraeli rescued the great
conservative party, and gave IL new
lease of life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
DR.. Routh's Eccentricity.
Youths Companion.

There are men who belong, by their
feelings and modes of thought, to the
seventeenth century, but their bodily ex-
istence is passed in the nineteenth. Such
man was DR.. Routh, who died in 1854
in his hundreth year. In his case it is
not difficult to excuse lack of ap,rehen-
sion of modern i'm provements. He had
been president of Magdalene college six
ty-three years when he died.
His politics was that of Strafford, his
religion that of Laud, the topic of his
conversation the Young Pretender and
the Jacobite faction, and he wore full
bottomed wig to the day of his death.
The old Tory did not quarrel with the
nineteenth century, as Mr.. Ruskin does,
with his contemptuOus condemnation of
railroads, bicycles and modern modes of
locomotion generally. DR.. Routh simply
renowned the century and all its works.
At long intervals he visited London,
but he always travelled by a coach called
the Star. The fare had been % shill-
lngs, which competition had reduced to a
guinea.
Unaware of the reduction. DR.. Routh,
on his next visit to the METROPOLIS. was
assisted to alight by the coachnan. to
whom he handed 25 shillings for his fare
and an additional half crown as q stin,,
for the respectful jehu.
"The fare, Mr.. President, is reduced TO
a guinea" said the coachman. The ven
cradle man reflected, and then replied:
''Sir, have always paid % sh1llings.
and always shall"
John bowed submissivaly and pocketed
the extra shillings.
An undergraduate having appeared at
the college three days after the beginning
of the term-he had spent the time il